Method of cleaning and polishing cutlery



N UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

wM. vINE, or NEw YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OIF CLEANING AND POLISHING CUTLERY. i

Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,458, dated February 28, 1844.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM VINE, of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Cleaning and `Polishing All Kinds of Cutlery; and I do hereby declare the following to be a description of themachine and method used for the said purpose.

I make a case or frame as shown in the drawing marked A and model hereto `attached, which frame is to receive circular elastic bud leather rubbers or `polishers, made as shown in plan marked B, the same being made and composed as follows: One or more circular boards marked C are cov-` ered with strips of buff leather,rfelt, cloth o-r other suitable or similar material. Cut into a shape to suit the circle o-f theboard or boards and fastened on the same, each strip lapping over the other half way more or less as shownin section marked II and plan D, by whichmeans the one edge of the strip will be loose and elastic and will yield and spring to the shape of the article introduced between or on the rubber, to be cleaned or polished. This simple process can be so managed by bringing the edges near to each other, to make the rubber to any reasonable thickness and softness-and when damaged or worn can be easily `repaired and will not glaze on the` face like leather put on plain in the old and customary manner. The boards or backs of the polishers are formed to receive into the cen` ter a hopper or feeder E fixed to the side of the stationary part of the frame, and entering into the interior or inner part of the face of the polishers, which is allowed Iby the cross through which the shaft` F passes being iXedon the inner face ofthe polisher under the leather-instead of the outside as is usually doneon other polishers.

On the outer or backside of the polisher I iX hollow troughs or feeders G to revolve with the same, and when revolving the outer` end dips into and takes up from the bottom of the case the friction powder, bringing it to the top of the circle. Itthen falls or shoots into the hopper E, passing thence into the center of the faceof the polishers and then by the centrifugal force caused by the same revolving, disperses itself" all over the surface always receding Vfrom the center Y to the o-uteredge-andthen falling to the bottom of the case is again constantlyftaken up by the feeder andreturned to the hoppers as before described thereby keeping up an incessant supply of `friction powder to` the center of the,` faceof the polishers when most needed-and spreading overthe whole surface. This simple, useful and important process obviates theotherwise insurmountable diiticulty of retainingthe friction powder on a surface when revolving.

In the center on the shaft in the hopperlil I introduce an endless propelling screw to assist the feedingwhen the friction powder gets damp or dead.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. Feeding or supplying the polishing powder at or near the center of the polishing surfacesas herein described.

2. `I further claim covering thefaces of the polishing wheels with strips of buff leather, felt, cloth or other similar material` the edges of which strips shall extend loosely over each other half their width more or less as herein described. y New York Feby. 1st, 1844.

wM. VINE.

Iitnesses:

ANDW. A. JONES, p EDWIN `BALmvrN. 

